Washington Today (9-12-24): Attorney Gen. calls threats against prosecutors ‘dangerous & outrageous’
Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department will not ‘bend to political pressure’, and he will not allow the department ‘to be used as a political weapon’, as he warns about ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘dangerous falsehoods” targeting federal law enforcement.
His speech comes as former President Donald Trump has continued to accuse the Justice Department of singling him out for prosecution and to threaten that, if he wins the presidency, to prosecute his enemies.
U.S. House finishes the week with no clear path yet for a government funding measure to prevent a shutdown come October. Speaker Mike Johnson says discussions will continue through the weekend.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) says after Hurricane Francine ripped through his state, ‘We’ll get the money that we deserve from the federal government to help us. That’s why we pay taxes.’
The Senate Health Committee plans to vote to hold the CEO of Steward Health Care in contempt for defying a subpoena to testify about why the company has filed for bankruptcy. Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says the CEO got hundreds of millions of dollars, while the hospitals it owned could not provide proper care because vendors were not paid and patients died.
The House passes a bill to prohibit the electric vehicle tax credit from being claimed if the EV has batteries made or sourced from Chinese entities.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder are asked about reports a decision has been made to allow Ukraine to use western-nation-supplied long-range weapons to strike deep into Russian territory.
Former Sen. James Sasser (D-TN) has died. We will hear part of a 1992 C-SPAN interview about seeing poverty around him during his childhood in Tennessee.
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